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The Battle of Baghdad, also known as the Fall of Baghdad, was a military engagement that took place in Baghdad in early April 2003, as part of the invasion of Iraq. Three weeks into the invasion of Iraq, Coalition Forces Land Component Command elements, led by the U.S. Army 3rd Infantry Division, captured Baghdad. Over 2,000 Iraqi soldiers as ...
October 27: 2003 Baghdad bombings: Four or five suicide car bombings rocked Baghdad, killing 30-40 people including, two US soldiers. The deadliest attack was on the HQ of the International Committee of the Red Cross, where a suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed 12 people and wounded 20. The other attacks targeted Iraqi police stations.
Three of Baghdad's 13 bridges over the Tigris river have been targeted by large explosions. [15] [16] The Al-Sarafiya bridge was destroyed when an abandoned truck bomb exploded on April 12, 2007. [17] At least 10 people were killed and 26 injured, though there were reports of 20 more trapped in cars that had gone off the bridge. [18]
Baghdad 1 February 2010 Baghdad bombing: 54 Unknown [72] 3 March 2010 Baghdad 2010 Baqubah bombings: 33 Unknown [73] 23 April 2010 Baghdad April 2010 Baghdad bombings: 85 Unknown [74] 10 May 2010 Iraq 10 May 2010 Iraq attacks: 114 Unknown [75] 8 July 2010 Baghdad July 2010 Baghdad attacks: 70 Unknown [76] 17 August 2010 Baghdad 17 August 2010 ...
Most incidents occurred in Baghdad, Taji, Mosul and Muqdadiya. [51] On October 28, a Car bombings during the last day of Eid left 15 people dead and 33 injured in Baghdad. [52] On November 6, a car bombing outside an army base in Taji killed 31 people and injured at least 50 others, most of them soldiers. The blast struck as troops were leaving ...
The Amiriyah shelter bombing [N 1] was an aerial bombing attack that killed at least 408 civilians on 13 February 1991 during the Gulf War, when an air-raid shelter ("Public Shelter No. 25") in the Amiriyah neighborhood of Baghdad, Iraq, was destroyed by the U.S. Air Force with two GBU-27 Paveway III laser-guided "smart bombs".
January 2018 Baghdad bombings; 2019. Attack on the United States embassy in Baghdad; 2020. 2020 Camp Taji attacks; 2021. January 2021 Baghdad bombings
The Islamic State of Iraq claimed the 22 Dec. Baghdad bombings in a statement released on jihadist Internet forums. The statement was translated by the SITE Intelligence Group. The claim was made on 26 December 2011; the day after another suicide attack killed seven policemen outside the Interior Ministry.